Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways

Open source developer Geoff Huntley wrote a script that sometimes makes him nauseous. That's becaues it uses agentic AI and coding assistants to create high-quality software at such tiny cost, he worries it will upend his profession.

Here's the script :
while :; do cat PROMPT.md | claude-code ; done

Huntley describes the software as "a bash loop that feeds an AI's output (errors and all) back into itself until it dreams up the correct answer. It is brute force meets persistence." He calls the code and the technique it enables "Ralph," a homage to 1980s slang for vomiting, and to Simpsons character Ralph Wiggum and his combination of ignorance, persistence, and optimism.

The Register put it to Huntley that current human-in-the-loop practices mean developers use AI coding assistants as if playing table tennis: They send a prompt to produce some code over the net, and the LLM bats back some code. He accepted the metaphor, which assumes the developer/bot game continues until the human is satisfied the AI produced something useful, picks up the ball, and goes away to work.

Huntley's approach changes the game by telling a coding assistant to attempt to satisfy a developer's requests, assess whether it did so, then try again until it delivers the desired results. Humans remain in the loop, but enter the software development process later and less often than is the case today.

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